Verdict

The verdicts have been issued:

prison—20 years.
Prison—10 years.
Prison—5 years.

Years have lost their meaning.
Here, everyone is sentenced.
You, too, are imprisoned.

Perhaps the lucky ones,
died for freedom,
with bullets in their eyes,
with blows to their heads,
under torture,
with a pill in their grief.

They have issued my sentence, too.
Execution.
“Don't tell mum!”*

*Mohammad Mehdi Karami ( 1 November 2001 – 7 January 2023) a 21-year-old Iranian karate champion executed for his involvement in the Mahsa Amini protests. In his final call tells to his father: “Don't tell mum I'm being executed”.